Why it's useful to know how to back up and restore a site

Description

Collection: Drupal 8 Site BuildingChapter: How to back up and restore a Drupal site and start from a chapter snapshot

Of course it's helpful to know how to back up and restore a site, but here we talk about the multiple reasons why.

Transcript

There's a lot of good reasons to know how to back up your site. A lot of times, you don't necessarily know how to accomplish something that you're trying to do, and you'll have to experiment with a lot of different approaches first. That can leave this trail of unused configuration that can bite you later on.

For this series, it's useful to be able to back up the site so you can begin to experiment. Al ...

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Skill focus: Site BuildingSkill level: Beginner - Intermediate

If you're looking to get started with Drupal 8, this is a great place to begin. In this series we build a practical Drupal 8 site from start to finish and get immersed in the most essential techniques, terminology and tools needed for both professional and hobbyist site builders. No matter how you work with Drupal 8 - as a site builder, programmer, front end developer or project manager - what you learn here will provide a solid foundation.

We cover a lot of material in this series, including these key points:

How to structure content and work with comments

How to evaluate, install and configure modules

How to use views to display lists of content

How to create relationships between content and use them in content lists

How to improve performance and security

How to work with blocks and structure custom block types

How to work with taxonomy, paths, and much, much more

Who this collection is for

This video collection is intended for those who are completely new to Drupal, or for those that want to make sure that they have a solid foundation before moving on to more advanced projects. We assume you know nothing about Drupal, and lead you from start to finish through a practical project.

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